Register variables | | - Associated discourse semantic function
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- Typical lexicogrammatical
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| - The information and way of representation
| | - Subject-specific terminology and transitivity structures
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| - The linguistic relation between the participants
| - Interpersonal (affiliation)
| - Modality structures, pronoun choices, evaluative lexis
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| - The form of communication
| - Textual (information settings)
| - Thematic and information structure, patterns of cohesion
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- Context of culture : the extralinguistic sociocultural environment in which the text is produced and operates
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| | - Discourse: enacted by conventionalized genres of which texts are individual examples
- A text is comprised of a specific register in a context of situation
| - The three strands of meaning (discourse semantic ) are expressed by specific lexical and grammatical choices
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